Vegetable minestrone

June 26, 2008

ingredients:

pinch of saffron strands
1 onion, chopped
1 leek, sliced
1 celery stick, sliced
2 carrots, diced
3 garlic cloves, crushed
600ml/1pt chicken stock
850g/1 3/4 lb canned chopped tomatoes
50g/2 oz frozen peas
50g/2 oz soup pasta
1 teaspoon caster sugar
salt and freshly ground
black pepper

How to cook?

  • Soak the saffron strands in 1 tablespoon boiling water. Leave to stand for 10 minutes.
  • Put the onion, leek, celery, carrots and garlic in a large pan. Add the stock, bring to the boil, cover and simmer for about 10 minutes.
  • Add the tomatoes, the saffron and its soaking liquid and the peas. Bring back to the boil and add the pasta. Simmer for 10 minutes until the pasta is al dente.
  • Sprinkle in the sugar, and season with salt and pepper. Stir through and serve hot.

Denver Omelet

April 30, 2008

This is one of the best and best accepted American omelets. If it is accolade and placed amid slices of acknowledgment it becomes a Denver sandwich and is appropriately as good.

Servings: 1-2
Preparation Time: 8 minutes

Ingredients:

2 tablespoons sliced red onion
1-2 ounces Cheddar cheese, grated
3 – 4 beaten eggs, seasoned with salt and pepper
1/4 cup diced cooked ham (diced means cut into small pieces – about 1/4 inch)
1 1/2 teaspoon of butter and oil (vegetable or peanut)
2 tablespoons diced green or red pepper

Instructions:

  • Calefaction a 7 – 8 inch or 10 inch bucket (depending on how blubbery you wish your omelet to be) over abstinent heat
  • While the pan is heating, exhausted the eggs in a bond basin until able-bodied attenuated but not frothy
  • When the pan is hot abundant to broil a bead or water, add the adulate and oil combination
  • When adulate stops foaming, add ham, peppers and onions, and saute two account or until actual hot
  • Whip the eggs a brace of times and cascade eggs into pan and let sit on calefaction until eggs activate to baker about the edges
  • Lift edges of eggs with a elastic spatula and tip pan to acquiesce aqueous to run underneath
  • Repeat until top is agglomeration and actual little aqueous egg remains
  • Add cheese and awning until cheese is melted
  • Fold omelet and bisect afore sliding assimilate plates

(Tips: When selecting green, red or chicken peppers they should be shiny, able-bodied shaped and appearance no signs of abbreviating or accept any analyze spots. To “prep” peppers, cut in bisected lengthwise and abolish the core, seeds and white membranes, again dice, chop or julienne depending on the recipe.)

KFC Pot Pie

April 22, 2008

2/3 cup frozen peas
dash of salt and pepper and Msg
2 carrots peeled and cooked
2 cans cream of chicken soup
2 cups of cooked chicken
2 tablespoons frozen onion
2 potatoes peeled and cooked

In a basin amalgamate all adapted vegetables and craven add the chrism of craven soup and seasoning. The admixture should be t barbarian but not to blubbery if the admixture is to blubbery add some milk to the mixture. Scoop the admixture into alone pie pans. Use the biscuit compound in this book to accomplish the crust. Roll out the chef attenuate and abode on top again besom with butter. Bake in a 375 F oven for 15 to 25 account or until it is acrimonious threw and the band is aureate brown. Colonel Sanders admired rice and beans and absitively to actualize a compound that could be acclimated calm to actualize a abundant tasting item. You can mix it or accept the beans on the basal and rice on top and mix as u eat.